Sleepers 3 by Jacqueline Druga

Author:Jacqueline Druga
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: dystopia, after the rapture, End of the World, rapture, Survival, what is a sleeper, corinthians dead in christ shall rise, virus, bible, 28 days later, christ shall rise, Zombies, corinthians, End Times, plague, Apocalypse, time travel, destruction
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2014-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

21.

Alex Sans

What a mess. Any opponents of Beck’s Reckoning were going to be few and far between following the invasion at the back gate.

The Sleepers climbed over each other to get inside, jump the wall, and attack anyone they came across.

With just six of us, it was impossible to defend against them, and it was even clearer to me that we weren’t as safe as I thought we were. How long had the Sleepers watched the wall? Why had they waited until that exact moment to attack?

If there were that many, there had to be more.

“Why did this happen, Alex?” Beck asked. “Why wasn’t this area secure of Sleepers?”

Was he reprimanding me? Blaming me for a Sleeper onslaught?

“How did so many get to the wall?”

“I don’t know.”

“It was your job to keep these people safe!” Beck hollered.

“I know!” I blasted back. “And I did. For a year, I kept them safe! I don’t know what happened or why they came just now. Why they waited.”

“They didn’t wait. They came yesterday. You should have sent men out to see where they were coming from.”

“Yeah, I should have. I didn’t,” I argued. “I didn’t ask for this shit, Beck. I did what I had to do to keep people safe.”

“Yeah, well, today this community lost eight people. One was a child.” Beck walked closer, so close that I could feel the heat of his breath. “A child.”

“What the hell, Beck?” I shoved him away. “I’m not your peon here and I don’t work for you. Who the hell do you think you are coming back and jumping in my face?”

Beck clenched his jaws so tight I could see the muscles. “I’m getting a scouting team together, we leave in ten. I expect you to be there.” Beck turned and walked out.

He certainly wasn’t the man I remembered or the man I intended to bring back. I guess a year acting as a military badass in the cave, wiping out Sleepers, does something to one’s ego.

Admittedly, I was really down. I knew the people that died better than Beck did. I lived with them. It hurt. Not to mention, Danny was knocked out cold; fortunately, he only sustained a bruised back and a concussion. Mera had a huge-ass bruise on her face from having her mouth stretched further than it should have been. The medical folks didn’t see infection in her blood but were watching her.

It could have been worse. There would have been no way six of us could have handled all those raging Sleepers if it wasn’t for Michael. He was a silent weapon. All he had to do was walk to a Sleeper and they’d stop. They’d freeze as if they were either in awe of him or didn’t know what to make of him. They stopped; we shot.

By the time we cleared those that were inside the wall, the ones on the other side had fled.

We had to find them. They were gathering somewhere; we had to find out where.

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